South Kensington

Gyles Brandreth’s Oscar Wilde party

On the anniversary of Oscar Wilde's birth this year,
Gyles Brandreth decided to gather a group of cheery actors,
journalists and political types of all persuasions to the Cadogan
Hotel (well, there really was nowhere else more fitting). Aside
from the Perrier-Jouët champagne sipping, Julie Walters,
Ken Livingstone,
Rachel Johnson and Ian
Hislop started an impromptu rendition of Happy
Birthday, before Joanna
Lumley stood up to read John Betjeman's poem, The Arrest of
Oscar Wilde at The Cadogan. It was Wilde.